Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital

[Flock of Moosen]

Did anyone check out this new Stephen King series tonight? I have been looking forward to this ever since I heard about it months ago because I love King's works, but I have to say this one is a bit strange.

Basically the premise of the show is a hospital was built upon the site of a mill fire that killed many child laborers back in 1869. Of course we know from Poltergeist (house built on a cemetary) that's doing such a thing is a no-no and thus the hospital is haunted.

Anyway, that's all standard horror stuff so that's normal, but then you have this freaky security guard with coke bottle glasses, two retarded people that seem to know things that are happening without actually seeing it and animals (including an aardvark) that can communicate telepathically. Very weird stuff.

I doubt this series will last due to the strangeness factor (ala Push, Nevada), but now I'm hooked, especially after seeing the upcoming previews. The first 2 hours were kinda slow moving to set up the show, but it looks like it may pick up from here and get good.